Gothic Ivories Project | Ear scoop (cure-oreille) (Front)

Ear scoop (cure-oreille) (Front)

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Subject
Secular. Courtly love.

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Ivory

Courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth chucking his lover under the chin.

Koechlin Number: 1133

Koechlin 1924: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Provenance
Figdor collection, Vienna (in 1924).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 416, 418, 421; II, no. 1133.

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